Decisive Parenting

Michael Hammond, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a licensed marriage and family therapist. He lives in Salem, Oregon, where he maintains a private practice and works as a therapist, consultant, and speaker. Visit his website at decisiveparenting.com

Dr. Hammond has the ideal skill set to write this book: a background in parent training and family counseling with a sprinkling of parenting intervention research experience. He shows how to integrate family rules, workable consequences, and positive reinforcement into a strategy that will enhance parent-teen relationships. This book would be a great gift to the parent of a teen, or to someone whose child is soon to become a teen. It will help the parent set the course for a parent-child relationship based on fair boundaries with mutual respect.

• Part 1 AcknowledgmentsPart 2 How to Use This BookPart 3 PART I: Building A Secure FoundationChapter 4 Chapter 1: Rules—Establishing a Firm FoundationChapter 5 Chapter 2: Write the Rules for Your TeenChapter 6 Chapter 3: Natural and Logical ConsequencesChapter 7 Chapter 4: Active Consequences for Challenging SituationsChapter 8 Chapter 5: Level Systems, Point Economies, and ContractsChapter 9 Chapter 6: Communication That Gets the Results You WantChapter 10 Chapter 7: Conflict Resolution with TeenagersChapter 11 Chapter 8: Reinforcers for Behaviors You Want to See RepeatedPart 12 PART II: Problem Behaviors and What to Do about ThemChapter 13 Chapter 9: ArguingChapter 14 Chapter 10: Chore CompletionChapter 15 Chapter 11: DrivingChapter 16 Chapter 12: Drug and Alcohol UseChapter 17 Chapter 13: FriendsChapter 18 Chapter 14: Information TechnologyChapter 19 Chapter 15: LyingChapter 20 Chapter 16: Running AwayChapter 21 Chapter 17: School Assignments and HomeworkChapter 22 Chapter 18: Sexual ActivityChapter 23 Chapter 19: Sibling FightingChapter 24 Chapter 20: StealingChapter 25 Chapter 21: SwearingChapter 26 Chapter 22: TelevisionChapter 27 Chapter 23: Tobacco UseChapter 28 Chapter 24: TruancyChapter 29 Chapter 25: ViolenceChapter 30 Chapter 26: Whereabouts and CurfewPart 31 Epilogue: Every Good ThingPart 32 References and Suggested ReadingPart 33 IndexPart 34 About the Author